A Qur’an-Informed Leadership Manual for Large Organizations: ‎Sequential Guidance from Surah Al-Kahf Integrated with ‎Contemporary Leadership Theory

  • Authors

    • Muhammad Aamir ali Permanent Faculty Member at Icon Training Centre, Doha, Qatar
    • Ali Raza Sattar Lecturer; Global Business Studies - GBS Dubai, UAE
    • Ms. Nazish Aamir Chief Financial Officer at Titan Services, Doha, Qatar
    • Raghab Majeed Permanent Faculty Member at National College of Business Administration and Economics, ‎Lahore, Pakistan‎
    • Muhammad Shahbaz Permanent Faculty Member at National College of Business Administration and Economics, ‎Lahore, Pakistan‎
    https://doi.org/10.14419/6cq9vx30

    Received date: January 17, 2026

    Accepted date: March 26, 2026

    Published date: March 29, 2026

  • Ethical Leadership; Strategic Leadership; Organizational Governance; Qur’anic Leadership Principles; Surah Al-Kahf; Evidence-Based Management; Employee Motivation; Accountability and Verification

  • Abstract

    This study develops a comprehensive leadership manual grounded in guidance from the Qur'an, ‎specifically Surah Al-Kahf (Chapter 18), and systematically integrates it with contemporary ‎leadership and organizational theories. Addressing persistent organizational challenges such as ‎misinformation, ethical erosion, demotivation of honest employees, and short-term opportunism, ‎the study proposes an evidence-based and morally grounded leadership framework that ‎emphasizes purposeful communication, accountability, ethical differentiation, and long-term ‎strategic orientation. Employing a structured qualitative content analysis complemented by ‎semantic network analysis, the research extracts leadership principles from relevant Qur’anic ‎verses and aligns them with established theoretical perspectives, including Strategic Leadership, ‎Ethical Leadership, Transformational Leadership, sense-making, and Evidence-Based ‎Management. The findings reveal eleven interrelated leadership principles that collectively ‎function as a coherent governance mechanism and must be mentioned in the organizational ‎Leadership manual, enhancing trust, psychological safety, motivation, work–life balance, and ‎organizational resilience. By translating Qur’anic ethical guidance into theoretically grounded ‎and testable leadership constructs, this study contributes to leadership scholarship through a ‎novel integrative framework that bridges classical moral wisdom with contemporary management ‎science. Furthermore, the study outlines clear directions for future quantitative validation, ‎enabling empirical testing and theoretical extension across diverse organizational contexts‎.

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    ali, M. A., Sattar, A. R. ., Aamir, M. N. ., Majeed, R., & Shahbaz, M. (2026). A Qur’an-Informed Leadership Manual for Large Organizations: ‎Sequential Guidance from Surah Al-Kahf Integrated with ‎Contemporary Leadership Theory. SPC Journal of Social Sciences, 7(1), 12-24. https://doi.org/10.14419/6cq9vx30